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HOW skilled a secret keeper is Benedict Cumberbatch if he readily confesses the easiest method for extracting secrets from him?

Asked somewhat frivolously for information about one of the many coming projects he cannot talk about, Mr. Cumberbatch, the 35-year-old British actor, offered an equally facetious response.

“You could stick a knife in my thigh, and I wouldn’t tell you,” he said a few weeks ago, relaxing on the deck of the Venice, Calif., home where he was staying. But he added: “Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.”

This isn't even the worst interview I've read of him but he never comes across well.So basically he looks like a lizard + he's a pretentious, posh prick + he looks like a lizard...why is that attractive?

And that's why I like the video interviews better. His sense of humor is so dry and sarcastic, so british, that if you are not looking at his body language to know he is joking, he comes across as a coincited prick :P

I think the problem is that it is print and the journalist took very little of what was actually said in his hour with a "motormouth", selected out things purposely that could be taken to be provocative (journalists always do) and gave us no context. The same interviewer published part of the transcript from a portion of this same interview and Benedict was rattling on in a very polite and diplomatic way, which is lost when you leave out everything but a few declarations. It's also a lot more evident to everyone what is intended as a joke in video as opposed to print.

Cumberbatch talks a LOT, throwing in a many polite asides, self-effacing remarks, and qualifications.

He said: “I just looked at it and went: ‘Begone, woman. Bring it back when it says “Sherlock Holmes” or Steven Moffat or myself — someone else who’s more deserving than the second series of “Downton Abbey.” ’ ”

omg i'm so sick of this interview, i feel like there was a daily post about it for the last 2 weeks.and i don't get why some people bring the "ontd picks the worst boyfriends" line, because in every cumberpost 70% of the comments are about how hideous he is. he is ontd's shameful ugly secret lover.

WTF is wrong with the OP!? Did Cumberbatch wee on their shopping or shit on their computer or what? What was with all the little sarcastic "comments" about his talent or lack thereof? If there is one thing all the critics agree on, it is that he is supremely talented. I think OP is pressed that is he is not conventionally handsome and thus is not given a free pass and is criticised in the extreme for just being himself. And just for the record, Sherlock deserves all the the awards. Just pissed off at ONTD's behaviour everytime Cumberbatch is brought up. Just rude tbh. Sorry to sound pressed/ but I kinda am- it just sounds so mean and schoolyard to bring up every post how he looks (and count on one comment on how he looks on this post. Does talent count for nothing? It makes me think that all the posts we have on self image and women is just meaningless and we have learned nothing since the 1950's. And I think most ppl would agree with him on his opinions as well.

Firstly, I don't think Benedict Cumberbatch is an actor of particular merit. He does not measure up against the likes of Idris Elba and Chiwetel Ejiofor. I don't deny that Cumberbatch can display incredible emotional range however he does so playing the same characters again and again. That's not a talented actor.

I firmly believe part of the reason he is so celebrated by the ~establishment~ is because he is a white male of middle class standing. It's a bitter pill to swallow when you note that Idris Elba and Chiwetel Ejiofor have given far better and varied performances whilst being a helluva lot more attractive, and yet not received one-sixth of the praise Benedict Cumberbatch has gotten.

Also, on ONTD teasing his looks, ARE YOU NEW HERE?

This is the same community that'll call Irina Shayk normal and slam Hilary Duff for not losing her baby weight.

I love him, but he's coming across as kind of douchey. I'm hoping that it is just looking weird in print. He sounded better in his Radio Times interview, where he says the whole Tumblr push to get him on the Time 100 list was silly. No shit, dude.